Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-30
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
An Interesting Summary of the
important Occurrences Of
the Week.
A Budget of News Cleaned From the
Latest Dispatches From Far
and Near.
.4DTICIiS BY TELEGRAM.
THE H.iDDOCK C.fSIS.

The Trial Of John -iren$dor7' Set for No
renber It'll other Cases Continued.
The trial of Sylvester Granda, co-defend-
ant in the Haddock murder case, which was
set for immediate trial, has been indefinitely
continued, as has all other cases except that
of til, chief defendant, john Arensdorf. This
ca G has been set for trial November IA. This
action was taken by consent of both the state
and defense. Tie defense in the Munchrath
case have given notice that they will move for
a new trial, and if this is denied they will ap-
peal the case to the supreme court The de-
PENDANT is out on $4,000 bonds, his surities
being his father and mo her, L. H. rumm
and Ed. Rcssegien
The through express train from San Fran
cisco, was robbed by masked men near Ben
Bro k, Texas, and booty taken valued at
$4,000 The train was robbed on tho same
trestle last June. Guards were in tho pas
senger coaches No at empt was made to mo-
lest the passengers. The robbie g entered the
express car and cleaned out the safe.
The ether day Mrs William Bright. of
New Castle, ind. gave premature birth 10
four children. To add to the record Mrs
Wright had previously given birth to five
pairs OF twins, making fourteen children at
six births
Alta comret tive examination for West
Point catle1ship from the Des Moines distric',
Frank L. Harris was declared the successful
appllcnnt
The nat 'onal republican ommittee will
meet at Washington cary in December to fix
the date as o .ation for the national conven-
ton Of 1888. Cincinnati, ST. Louis, and other
cities will endeaver to secure the convention,
but there is little doubt that with reasonable
effort on The part of the PEOPLE of Chicago
they stand tn best show OF securing the con-
VENT Ii.
Gov. La.rabee and aft, of Iowa, accom-
panied by the Governors Greys, OF Dubuque,
arrived in Washing on from New York few
days ago, where they went after attending tho
con ',itutional ceebr Aton at Philadelphia.
They were met at the station by the Washing
ton light infantry and rendered an escort to
the Willard hotel. They called ON the
president
"A Vienna telegram states that the porte
has seat circulars to the powers, processing
that a general, chosen by Turkey and Russia
joint y be sent to Bulgaria with the power to
restore order in accordance with The treaty Of
Berlin. ihe assent of Germany, France and
Rus ia is considered certain I'd that of Eng
land, Austria AMI Italy is deemed uncertain.
The Trafalgar, ,he largest ironclad ever
constructed, has been successfully launched
at Portsmouth, England.
R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly trade re-
view note severe monetary stringency at i'm
portant centers, notwithstanding the large I'M
ports of gold. The phenom non is explained
by the large sums absorbed in railroad con-
structon and bui ding operations i'll the west
and south. The lusiness failures for the last
seven days in the United States and Canada
numbered lSS, as aga ns. 1S5 dur ne tho cor
responding period of last year.
Tho cast-bound pass anger train on the
Chicago, Mi waukee and st Paul road ran in
to the rear Of freight train three miles cast
Of Canton, ID. T. The freight train was
switching at Inwood, Iowa, and the rear part
broke ose and tore down grade, and finally
collided with the passenger train The fol-
lowing persons were lied: Andrew Der
reth Rock Valley, Ia, line repairer; w. A.
Ploog, M2Gregor, engineer Of the passenger
tran; Charles Dunbar, Mason City, L., fire.
man The engineer is blamed for tho acct
dent
Vim. Thompson concealed himself near
the house of y. Thompson, eight miles from
Louisa, KY, anG shot three members of tho
family, one of them fatally. The murderer
also shot school teacher His victims were
his own consips